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AMD to invest $400 million in India by 2028: Here’s what we know

US chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices said on Friday it will invest around $400 million in India over the next five years and will build its largest design center in the tech hub of Bengaluru. AMD’s announcement was made by its Chief Technology Officer Mark Papermaster at an annual semiconductor conference that started Friday in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat. Other speakers at the flagship event include Foxconn Chairman Young Liu and Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra. Despite being a late entrant, the Modi government has been courting investments into India’s nascent chip sector to establish its credentials as a chipmaking hub. AMD said it will open its new design centre campus in Bengaluru by end of this year and create 3,000 new engineering roles within five years. “Our India teams will continue to play a pivotal role in delivering the high-performance and adaptive solutions that support AMD customers worldwide,” Papermaster said. The new 500,000-square-foot (55,5...

Allahabad HC stays case against Oppo India Manager and Director in alleged mobile explosion case

The Allahabad High Court has stayed the FIR against the Oppo Mobiles India Manager and Director in an alleged mobile explosion case. At the hearing that was held earlier this week, the Allahabad HC bench of Justice Mahesh Chandra Tripathi and Justice Subhash Vidyarthi held that the court proceeding in this case based on prima facie evidence would be an abuse of the court of law. The court gave the respondents four weeks’ time to file a counter affidavit in the matter.

Notably, the case dates back to 2020 when a 22-year-old Noida resident Vashu Bhati filed a case against the Oppo Mobiles India Director Mohinder Singh Malik and Oppo Mobiles India Manager Sanjay Goel and other officials named in the case. In his FIR, the informant had alleged that he had bought an Oppo smartphone back in July 2019. The phone exploded while the phone was in his pocket in September 2020 owing to which he sustained injuries.

LiveLaw.in reports that in the FIR that was registered under Sections 337, 338 and 428 of the Indian Penal Code, the informant said that his Oppo F11 smartphone exploded in his pocket, which injured him severely owing to which he had to be rushed to the hospital. Furthermore, when his grandmother got to know about the incident, she had a heart attack, which ultimately resulted in her demise.

The report also says that moving the HC, the petitioners argued that they had been falsely implicated in the case as they were mere Director and Manager of the company. The counsel on behalf of the petitioners argued that they cannot be held liable in a case against the company unless there were allegations against their specific roles. The counsel also said that the informant, Bhati, should have approached the Consumer Court or the Civil Court for his grievance instead.

Now, the Allahabad HC has stayed all further proceedings in the case until the mentioned affidavits are submitted in the court.

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